I have little interest in a re-, re-, rematch, particularly with a pay-per-view price tag of $59.95.

But Pacquiao-Marquez IV on Dec. 8 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas is the fight promoter Bob Arum gave us after deciding Timothy Bradley wasn't a big enough attraction to warrant a second fight with Pacquiao, even though he won a hotly disputed decision the first time.

After the ridiculous decision rendered in Pacquiao-Bradley, conspiracy theorists suggested the outcome was fixed just so there could be another big-money rematch.

“That avoids those problems with all those morons,” Arum said.

The numbers clearly favor a fourth Pacquiao-Marquez fight, but you have to wonder about fans adopting the “been there, done that” attitude, shrugging and simply deciding to do something else on an early December night.

That's pretty close to Christmas. Fans might be a little reluctant to dole out more of their hard-earned money for a fight they feel like they've already seen not once but three times.

All three fights have been remarkably similar. Good, action-packed and close. But all the same.

Who's to say No. 4 will be any different?

Marquez got up from three first-round knockdowns in their first fight in 2004 at 125 pounds to earn a draw. Pacquiao won a split decision in 2008 at 130 and a majority decision last November at 144.

Marquez and many fans believe he won at all three of those fights. So there's a feeling the judges likely will subconsciously attempt to even the score and favor Marquez in this one, which will be contested at 147.

That's the reason Pacquiao has been suggesting during the promotional tour that he wants to knock out Marquez this time in order to take matters out of the judges' hands.

Marquez, too, is saying he wants a knockout to remove any doubt.

But Pacquiao at 33 clearly isn't the fighter he once was and hasn't had a knockout in nearly three years. Marquez, 39, possesses a counterpunching style that gives Pacquiao fits, but it's a style that likely won't produce a KO, either. Particularly against a fighter as talented as Pacquiao.

So likely what we'll see is a repeat of Pacquiao-Marquez I, II and III.

A good, close fight. But one I've seen before and don't really need to see again.